gaudy

Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy.

Though, I confeſs, Paris has its Charms; but to me they are like thoſe of a Coquette, gay and gavvdy; they ſerve to amuſe vvith, but a Man vvould not chuſe to be marry'd to them.

Fun; merry; festive.

Let's have one other gaudy night.

And for my strange petition I will make Amends hereafter by some gaudy day

One of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.

In 1458, the owner of the precious book, which had been taken from the martyr’s body at the block, left a rosary of 50 coral beads with gold gaudies, to his “beloved, most blessed Saint Richard Scrope,” to help in his canonization, with a prayer to God that it might be granted of His great grace.

The circling year was to him like the rosary over which he recited his aves and paternosters; the “gaudies” or larger beads were the holidays set at regular intervals along the string, […]

A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally during the long vacation.

And since then, Mary had married and scarcely been heard of; except that she had haunted the College with a sick persistence, never missing an Old Students’ Meeting or a Gaudy.